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"The poor lass hath not a soul about her, that knows anything about anything. What avail a pair o' soldiers? Why, that sort o' cattle should be putten out o' doors the first, at such an a time." Need I say that this was a great comfort to Margaret. Poor soul, she was full of anxiety as the time drew near. She should die; and Gerard away. But things balance themselves.
Well, the moment that my daughter had consented to take Masapo as her husband his people drove a hundred and twenty of the most beautiful cattle over the hill, and would you have had me refuse them, Saduko? I am sure that when you have seen them you will say that I was quite right to accept such a splendid lobola in return for one sharp-tongued girl.
Dispatches had been received from camp up to the 4th of that month. Major-General the Hon. George Cathcart, with the local rank of Lieutenant-General, having superseded Sir Harry G. W. Smith, was in command. The campaign was on the Kei, and Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, 73d regiment, following a spoor of cattle, had captured 1,220 head of Gaika cattle, mostly cows, and fifteen horses.
On the third day we were ready to pull out from the river, with the cattle rested by the enforced wait. Now the question was, what about the lower crossing? Those who had crossed over the river must somehow get back. I could walk that distance in three days, while it would take our teams ten. Could I go on ahead, procure a wagon box, and start a ferry of my own?
How I laughed when they wagged their old grey heads and told me that the great South road was the road to Hell." Life is what we make it, here or in the hills Douglas said, with a sententiousness which sounded to himself like ugly irony. The man at the window drew himself up. For a moment there was a gleam of the old self. "For the cattle, ay, Douglas," he answered.
Many instances, however, have occurred in later years of desecration by pasturing cattle in the churchyards, and offences of this nature have been so recent that the practice cannot be said with confidence to have even now entirely ceased. But we return to the gravestones. From one cause or another it is pretty certain that for every old gravestone now to be seen twenty or more have disappeared.
Every morning the peasants went to their work on the farms, and the shepherds drove their little flocks outside the city walls. Arched gateways were built in the walls, and through these gates everyone entering or leaving the city was obliged to pass." "Think of having sheep and cattle inside the city," exclaimed Edith. "I suppose they had to be protected from the wild animals."
And now the trouble was, that one of those hated and dreaded land-slides had come and slid Morgan's ranch, fences, cabins, cattle, barns and everything down on top of his ranch and exactly covered up every single vestige of his property, to a depth of about thirty-eight feet.
It is here indeed, if ever, that man is sometimes found a detached and a solitary being: he has found an object which sets him in competition with his fellow creatures, and he deals with them as he does with his cattle and his soil, for the sake of the profits they bring.
"Well, I have a way of taking things in at a glance," said he. "That's why I'm foreman, I expect. So you've had enough work?" "My system's full of it," replied Lin, grinning. As the foreman stood thinking, he added, "And I'd like my time." Time, in the cattle idiom, meant back-pay up to date. "It's good we're not busy," said the foreman.
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